98 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
or even 45 mm.), with about 3 slender joints mostly 10- to 20-flowered in 
4+2 series: peduncle 2-4 mm. long, usually followed by a sterile joint: 
scales white-margined. Fruit variously said to be white or yellow, ovoid, 
3x4-5 mm., smooth, golden-glistening when dry, like other young parts 
of the plant: sepals closely inflexed.—Plate 134. 
Antillean and Caribbean regions.—The type from Puerto Rico. 
Specimens examined:—ANTILLES. Puerto Rico (Bertero, 439 in 
part,—the type; Eggers, 880, 1147 ; Sintenis, 339b, 887, 4894, 5297, 6060; 
Garber, 11; Gundlach, 1472; Krug, 537; Stahl, 1043b; Britton, Britton & 
Marble, 1946; Britton & Cowell, 1301, 1352; Britton & Shafer, 1831; Un- 
derwood & Griggs, 671; Stevens, 5825, 5825a, 5899, 5931). St. THOMAS 
(Shafer de Fitch, 1472). CARIBBEES. St. Crorx (Ricksecker, 302). GUADE- 
LOUPE (Duss, 2966, 2969 in part, 3902 in part, 4418 in part). DOMINICA 
(Imray, 212; Eggers, 926). Martinique (Duss, 101 in part, 1374b in 
part, 4418 in part; Hahn, 550, 733, 1132). ST. Vincent (Smith, 245 in 
part, 1305; Herb. Hooker.; Herb. Haynald.). 
“7 PHORADENDRON ANCEPS (Krug & Urban). 
Phoradendrum anceps Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 40. 1897. 
Viscum anceps Sprengel, Syst. vol. 1. p. 487. 1825.—de Candolle, Prodro- 
mus. vol. 4. p. 282. 
Scarcely forked, the rather long branches with basal cataphyls only, 
androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-3x40-50 mm.), smooth, compressed 
or2-keeled. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, slightly tubular, white- 
margined. Leaves somewhat faleately lanceolate, very obtuse, 2-4x9-15 
em., euneately petioled for 10-15 mm. Spikes more or less elustered, 
rather short (15-20, lengthening to 30 mm.), with about 3 slender joints, 
rather turbinately some 18-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle scarcely 
2 mm. long: seales slightly scarious-margined. Fruit said to be yellow, 
subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, smooth: sepals somewhat parted.—Plate a 
135. 
Antillean region.— The type from Santo Domingo. : 
Specimens examined :—ANTILLES. Santo Dominco (Bertero, 439 n 
part,—the type collection of V. anceps, at the National Museum of Prag, 
from Sprengel; also, as from Puerto Rico, under the same number, ass0- 
ciated with P. chrysocarpum; Wright, Parry & Brummel, 458; Poiteau, 
from Ventenat’s herbarium; Eggers, 1682). 
PHORADENDRON Harti (Krug € Urban). 
Phoradendrum Hartii Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. v. 24. p. 40. 1897. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the elongated branches with basal | 
eataphyls only, dioeeious?. Internodes rather long (2-3x40-80 mm.) | 
